Mattress.



PATENTED MAY 7, 1907.

S. H. WESTON,

MATTRESS. APPLIOATION FILED NOV. 24, 1906.

Attorn eysp Witnesses:

, TON, a citizen of the United illhllihi STAES AE tries.

MATTRESS.

Specification of Letters Patent.

Patentea May 7, 1907.

Application filed November 2 1905. Serial No. 288,909.

To all whom, it may concern.- 4

Be it known that I, SARAH HoorER Wasat Congaree, in the county ofRichland and State of South Carolina, have invented a new and usefulMattress, of which the following is a specification; i

This invention relates to mattresses.

The object of the invention is to rovide a novel form of mattress inwhich t e filling may readily be removed for the purpose either ofWashing the case or of cleansing the filler, whereby a mattress that hasbeen soiled may readily be cleaned and rendered sanitary.

A further object is to ro'vide a mattress having its filler arrange in aplurality of cells or chambers, each partitioned from the other and soarranged as to ermit ready insertion or removal of the filler fromone-or all the cells as may be necessary or desirable.

A further object is to improve the manner of securing the partitionswithin the. case whereby the exterior. of the case will present a smoothand seamless appearance throughout all of its exposed surfaces. Y

A further object is to provide a novel form of sheath or cover forinclosing the mattress, which may readily be combined with or removedfrom the mattress, and in which, also, its exterior shall present aseamless ap earance throughout all of its exposed su aces.

With the above and other objeetsin View, as will appear as the nature ofthe invention is better understood the same consists in the novelconstruction and combination of parts of a mattress, as will behereinafter fully described and claimed. l

In the accompanying drawings forming a part of this specification, andin which like characters ,of reference indicate correspond-- ing parts:Figure lis a view in pers ective exhibiting the sheath or cover, and aso one of the mattress sections positioned therein. Fig. 2 isaperspeetive view of a mattress section, a portion of the side beingopen to exhibit the manner in which the filler may be inserted orremoved. 1

A salient feature of the present invention is that both the sheath andthe case are preferably made of a single piece of material, save thepartitions that are employed in con ncction with both parts for thepurpose, in the case of the sheath or cover to segregate the mattresssections, and in the case of the States, residing sheath or cover,

mattress sections, to hold the filler separated and bottom are ofgreater length than the partitions-and project beyond the same to formflaps 4 and 5, the latter being secured to the ends of the sheath at 6,while the flap 4 is disconnected and is adapted to be folded over theflap F and secured thereto by any suitable or preferred form offastening device, tapes or strings 7 being shown in this instance,although buttons, lacing, strings or the like may be employed in lieuthereof.

The mattress section, shown in detail in Fig. 2, comprises a case 8which is constructed in the same manner as the sheath or cover, theflaps, 9 and 10- cf which are shown as secured together by a lacing 11although, if preferred, tapes, such as shoavn in Fig. 1 may be employed,or any other form of his tening device. The section is herein shown asdivided by partitions 12 into five cells or compartments in which thefiller 13, which may be of any suitable substance is confined, eachfiller being held out of contact and sepa-' rated from the adj acentfiller by the partition.

. Generallyitwill be preferred to employ the but this is not essentialas the mattress may be constructed on the same lines as the section-thatis to say, the filler could be arranged in the compartments 14 of.

the sheath, and thus present a thoroughly efficient form of mattress. Ineither form, that is to say, Whether the mattress is comor in a slheatlhaving a plurality of compartments for he ding bunches of fillers, thesame feature is present, namely, readily be removed when the sheath orcase is to be laundered and be readily replaced. Furthermore, should thefiller iii one of the compartments become soiled, or rendered unsanitaryfrom any cause it may be removed and be re laced by a fresh fillerwithout disturbing t ose in the other compartments.

While the invention is herein described as applied to mattresses, andone that is shown as approximately rectangular in shape, it is to beunderstood that it may be used in conneetion with other than mattresses,such as with cushions, and that it may be made in posed of a series ofsections held in asheath that the filler may othershapes than thatshown, and of any material desired for either sections, casings orfillings. V

Instead of employing tapes or strings 7 for securing tiie'tflaps 4 and 5together, the flaps may be omitted and the edgeso'f the parts may besewed together. It Will be observed that each partition is of a regularwidth and,

length, sewed in from the inside of all sides giving it the uniform boxappearance, wh ch does away with all cords through and throu h themattress and the old unsanitary tu ts used on other mattresses.

A further feature of the invention and one of salient advantages thatthere "are no seams on the outside of the sheath in which .vernnn canhnd lodgment.

The improvements as a whole aresimple, may be readily carried intooperation and will not require any special form of machinery in themanufacture of the article.

Having thus described the invention, whatis claimed is A mattressembodying a substantially rectangular sheath open at one side and havingsmooth continuous top and bottom walls arranged parallel with eachother, and integral end walls of the same width as the sheath aplurality o1? spaced pprtitions secured to the interior suifaces-of t etop and bottom Walls and of less width than the width ofthe mat tress toform lon itudinal flaps disposed at r the open end of t e sheath, andcontinuous with the top and bottom walls of the latter,

respectively, one of said flaps being of the same height of the endwalls and having its op osite ends rigidly secured to said end we ls andthe 0p osite flap being free and adapted to be f0 ded downwardly overthe fixed flap, with its lower longitudinal ed e in alinement With thebottom of the sheat removable mattress, sections fitting between stringon the folding flap.

In testimony that I claim the foregoing as my own, I have hereto aflixedmy signature in the preseneeiif two witnesses:

SABAH HOOPER WESTON.

Witnesses:

' FRANCIS H WESTON,-

W. T. AroooK.

